{"id":42,"date":"2013-03-18T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-03-18T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:30:17","slug":"shopsite-and-image-alt-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/shopsite-and-image-alt-tags\/shopsite-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"ShopSite and Image Alt Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get more traffic to your site &#8230; you need to make Google happy.\u00a0 One thing you can do is to have what are called &#8220;alt&#8221; tags associated with your images.\u00a0 If you are using ShopSite, these alt tags are not necessarily what you want them to be.\u00a0Do a View &gt; Source Code in your browser to see what is showing for \u00a0your product images.\u00a0 You may be surprised at what is listed &#8212; might be file name which doesn&#8217;t mean much for a google search or might even be blank.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hosting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"hosting at lexiconn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hosting.jpg\" alt=\"hosting at lexiconn\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hosting at Lexiconn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What can you do?\u00a0Well, if you host with <a title=\"Hosting with Lexiconn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lexiconn.com\/affiliates\/clickthru.cgi?id=psldesigns\">Lexiconn<\/a>, they have developed a new utility just for this purpose, their Image Alt Tag Module.\u00a0 If you have a ShopSite Pro account, they let you have this module for free and they will install it for you.\u00a0 All you need to do is decide what you want your alt tag to be.\u00a0 Pick from Product Name, Product Description, SKU, an extra product field so you can virtually use anything! \u00a0It updates daily so any changes you make show up in a timely manner without you having to do anything. Not sure what field to use for your alt tag? We can help you with that and can help you create a custom field if you want it something specific.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to use search words in your alt tag to help customers find you and keep Google happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get more traffic to your site &#8230; you need to make Google happy.\u00a0 One thing you can do is to have what are called &#8220;alt&#8221; tags associated with your images.\u00a0 If you are using ShopSite, these alt tags are not necessarily what you want them to be.\u00a0Do a View &gt; Source Code in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/shopsite-and-image-alt-tags\/shopsite-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ShopSite and Image Alt Tags&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psldesigns.com\/web-designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}